Ben Clifford

491 total citations
35 papers, 327 citations indexed

About

Ben Clifford is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Finance and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Clifford has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 327 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Urban Studies, 14 papers in Finance and 9 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Ben Clifford's work include Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (14 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (13 papers) and Political and Economic history of UK and US (6 papers). Ben Clifford is often cited by papers focused on Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (14 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (13 papers) and Political and Economic history of UK and US (6 papers). Ben Clifford collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Bahrain. Ben Clifford's co-authors include Mark Tewdwr‐Jones, Jessica Ferm, Janice Morphet, Nicola Livingstone, Charles R. Warren, Norman Roberts, Susan Moore, Mike Raco, Geoff Vigar and Helen Pineo and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Information Management, Urban Studies and Geographical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Ben Clifford

32 papers receiving 308 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ben Clifford United Kingdom 11 175 146 90 64 60 35 327
Madeleine Pill United Kingdom 11 150 0.9× 130 0.9× 71 0.8× 35 0.5× 112 1.9× 29 326
Brendan Nevin United Kingdom 11 233 1.3× 130 0.9× 65 0.7× 66 1.0× 114 1.9× 16 378
Gill Bentley United Kingdom 10 115 0.7× 77 0.5× 196 2.2× 106 1.7× 56 0.9× 22 366
Marc Pradel Miquel Spain 10 237 1.4× 55 0.4× 62 0.7× 46 0.7× 124 2.1× 25 378
Göran Cars Sweden 9 92 0.5× 63 0.4× 73 0.8× 31 0.5× 122 2.0× 21 320
Alex Schafran United Kingdom 12 216 1.2× 114 0.8× 63 0.7× 118 1.8× 178 3.0× 23 452
Cliff Hague United Kingdom 9 153 0.9× 46 0.3× 89 1.0× 29 0.5× 112 1.9× 37 350
Fernando Díaz Orueta Spain 9 235 1.3× 53 0.4× 49 0.5× 35 0.5× 84 1.4× 38 365
Bertie Russell United Kingdom 7 142 0.8× 87 0.6× 155 1.7× 17 0.3× 151 2.5× 9 386
Gwyndaf Williams United Kingdom 12 120 0.7× 63 0.4× 51 0.6× 44 0.7× 72 1.2× 25 320

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Clifford

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Clifford

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Clifford, Ben, et al.. (2025). On the need for caution in using ‘big data’ for built environment research: A response to Chng et al. (2024). Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 57(5). 669–686.
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Clifford, Ben, et al.. (2024). Planning, adaptive reuse, housing quality and health in a post-pandemic England. Town Planning Review. 95(4). 379–389.
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Pineo, Helen, Ben Clifford, Max T. Eyre, & Robert W Aldridge. (2024). Health and wellbeing impacts of housing converted from non-residential buildings: A mixed-methods exploratory study in London, UK. Wellbeing Space and Society. 6. 100192–100192. 4 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben & Geoff Vigar. (2023). Disparate goals, progressive ideals? Professional biographies of planners in the UK and their ideas of ‘mission’. Planning Practice and Research. 39(2). 320–338. 1 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben, et al.. (2022). Turning Shops into Housing? Planning Deregulation, Design Quality and the Future of the High Street in England. Built Environment. 48(1). 123–140. 7 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben & Jessica Ferm. (2021). Planning, regulation and space standards in England: from ‘homes for heroes’ to ‘slums of the future’. Town Planning Review. 92(5). 537–560. 12 indexed citations
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Morphet, Janice & Ben Clifford. (2020). Reviving Local Authority Housing Delivery. Policy Press eBooks.
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Morphet, Janice & Ben Clifford. (2018). Progress and current trends in local authority housing provision. Journal of urban regeneration and renewal. 11(4). 324–324. 4 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben. (2016). ‘Clock-watching and box-ticking’: British local authority planners, professionalism and performance targets. Planning Practice and Research. 31(4). 383–401. 16 indexed citations
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Morphet, Janice & Ben Clifford. (2016). ‘Who else would we speak to?’ National Policy Networks in post-devolution Britain: The case of spatial planning. Public Policy and Administration. 33(1). 3–21. 1 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben & Janice Morphet. (2014). A policy on the move? Spatial planning and State Actors in the post‐devolutionary UK and Ireland. Geographical Journal. 181(1). 16–25. 11 indexed citations
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Morphet, Janice & Ben Clifford. (2014). Policy Convergence, Divergence and Communities: The Case of Spatial Planning in Post-Devolution Britain and Ireland. Planning Practice and Research. 29(5). 508–524. 7 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben & Janice Morphet. (2014). Introduction to devolution and the geographies of policy. Geographical Journal. 181(1). 2–5. 4 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben & Mark Tewdwr‐Jones. (2013). The collaborating planner?. Policy Press eBooks. 38 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben & Mark Tewdwr‐Jones. (2013). The Collaborating Planner?. 1 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben & Mark Tewdwr‐Jones. (2013). The Collaborating Planner?: Practitioners in the Neoliberal Age. UCL Discovery (University College London). 19 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben. (2012). Planning in an age of customers: British local authority practitioners, identity and reactions to public sector reform. Town Planning Review. 83(5). 553–574. 11 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben. (2012). Rendering reform: local authority planners and perceptions of public participation in Great Britain. Local Environment. 18(1). 110–131. 8 indexed citations
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Clifford, Ben. (2006). Only a town planner would run a toxic-waste pipeline through a recreational area: Planning and planners in the British press. Town Planning Review. 77(4). 423–455. 10 indexed citations

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